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This year, young academics can nominate themselves for membership to the Utrecht Young Academy.

Researchers at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and UMCU are developing a 3D printer that can recreate a part of the human body, including living cells, within minutes.

Madelijn Strick, member of the Utrecht Young Academy, recently published the book ‘Humour is one of the four pillars of the universe (I have forgotten about the other three)’.

NL4XAI is a new European project focused on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence.

De Universiteit Utrecht hecht grote waarde aan onderwijsinnovatie en wil uitstekend onderwijs en goed docentschap graag waarderen.

Maranke Wieringa and Mirko Schaefer talk about algorithms and artificial intelligence in the 'VNG magazine'. In the podcast 'De Dataloog' Wieringa also talks about SyRi (System Risk Indication).

Dr. Rakhyun E. Kim, dr. James Patterson en dr. Yanliu Lin will each receive 1.5 million euros to carry out their research over the next five years.

Promising researchers are awarded this five-year European grant if they have proven their potential to become independent research leaders.

In August, the fifth and last part of the Aëtiana series, written by Jaap Mansfeld and Douwe Runia, was released.

Watch the speech of Henk Kummeling during the Start of the Academic Year 2020-2021.

Prof. Chris Van Den Broeck (Physics) is one of the scientists involved in the research.

The behaviour of men and women (at the top) of academia examined.

Hybrid defence Arjon van Lange

Kees Koedijk is appointed as Faculty professor of Banking and Finance at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ School of Economics (U.S.E.).

NWO Domain Science has awarded applications in the Open Competition XS to Razvan Cioc (Chemistry) and Suzan Ruijtenberg (Biology).

Plantenonderzoeker Sjon Hartman vertelt waarom de plant Arabidopsis zo belangrijk is voor zijn onderzoek.

Publication in Nature Physics

Emile Wennekes wrote a piece on Charlie Parker in honour of what would have been Parker's 100th birthday.

Professor of cross-cultural law at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, Tom Zwart, wins prestigious Li Buyun Law Prize for his eminent contribution to Chinese legal studies and legal education.

Recently the book 'Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation' was published, edited by Barnita Bagchi.

This week Mathijs Peters' book 'Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers' was published.

Van Sebille develops software that models ocean currents and can therefore map out the journey of plastic waste in the oceans.

This month Lorena De Vita's book 'Israelpolitik: German-Israeli relations, 1949-69' was published.

During the opening of the Academic Year, Rector Magnificus Henk Kummeling presented the Student Awards.

During the Opening of the Academic Year 2020-2021, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ will award two honorary doctorates, to Valerie Masson-Delmotte and Hirokazu Yoshikawa.